Re: Marilyn Monroe

["Toan" <toan@usa.net>]

> There was hardly anything riveting about the "Ma~ Le^. Ye^'n 
> Mo^.ng Lo^~" story. It got stuck in my mind simply because of 
> the hilariousness of it when Mr. Le Thuong told it to the class.
> 
> It's been almost a quarter-century and I can only remember
> very vaguely the lesson of that day. I think he was explaining 
> the Chinese way of phoneticizing Western names and converting
> them into Chinese characters. In the process somehow the "R"s
> turned into "L"s; and as we converted the Chinese terms into
> Vietnamese the result sometimes sounded quite funny -- as was
> in the case of Marilyn Monroe :))
> 

This reminded me of Bill Clinton = Ca? Lua^n Ta^n

Toa`n